Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
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Our strategy: Many athletic performances are critically dependent on metabolic function, and physical training is effective in preventing and treating metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and obesity. The Exercise Biology group at the TU Munich therefore aims to investigate topics related to sports and metabolism often with disease relevance. We often use state-of-the-art methods of metabolic research such as arteriovenous metabolomics analyses and metabolic flux analyses as well as methods of molecular sports physiology. Our main goal with this strategy is to mechanistically answer important unanswered questions in the field. We want to discover new phenomena that help athletes optimize their performance, help patients recover, and ultimately help all people who want to stay fit and healthy for a long time.
Oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis are the two truly major energy metabolism pathways in humans. While maximal oxygen uptake has been used for a century as a whole-body measure of maximal oxidative phosphorylation, there is no universally accepted, comparable measure of maximal glycolysis. In…
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Prof. Dr. Henning Wackerhage, head of the Exercise Biology Research Group at the Technical University of Munich, was interviewed by Welt am Sonntag in June 2025 about current research on the amino acid taurine.
The conversation focused on the potential influence of taurine on age-related changes in…
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Our doctoral student Tim Havers recently published a new review on the extent to which muscle mass affects body fat mass and glucose metabolism.
Overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes mellitus are metabolic health problems and diseases that affect billions of people worldwide. Studies in animals…
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On May 22, 2025, Professor Jonathan Long (Stanford University) presented his latest research on the chemical regulation of energy metabolism through physical activity under the title “Exercise, Metabolites, and the Chemical Control of Energy Metabolism.”Physical activity alters metabolism at a…
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David Glass, MD, is a leader in skeletal muscle hypertrophy and atrophy research, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the USA and delivered the 11th HyperMet talk on the 15.5.2025. His contributions include identifying IGF-1-AKT-mTORC1 activity as a major cause of skeletal muscle…
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